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Congress

Senators Work To Fight 2nd Wave of DoD Cuts

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

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Hawkish senators plan to share more information today about their attempts to prevent the Pentagon from receiving up to $600 billion in long-term cuts, which may have triggered by lawmakers’ failure to craft a budget-cutting plan. “A group of us are going to try to find a way to achieve $1.2 trillion in savings without destroying the Defense Department,” Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) member Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told reporters yesterday at the Capitol. “We’re going to...try to find bipartisan spending…

Army

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